Apparatus for drying the face.



PATENTED FEB. 28, 1905. L P BOWEN & W J WHITE APPARATUS FOR DRYING THE PAGE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 11,1900.

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L. P. BOWEN & W. J. WHITE...

APPARATUS FOR DRYING THE PAGE.

APPLIOATION FILED 111KB 11, 1900.

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Patented February 38, 1905.

LEANDER l9. HOlVEN AND lVlLLlAli/l J. VVIIITE, OF AUBURN, NEW YORK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 783,606, dated February 28, 1905,

Application filed June 11, 1900. Serial No. 19,896.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that We, LEAND 1m P. Bowen and VVILLIAMJ. VVnrrn, of Auburn, in the county of Cayuga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Drying the Face, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in barbers supplies, having more particular reference to means for drying the face after it has been shaved and after it has been bathed with toilet preparations, such as bay-rum, witch-hazel, and the like.

After the barber has bathed the face sub sequent to shaving it is the usual practice to dry it by the use of a fan or the vibration of a towel or by other means equally as inconvenient.

One object of our invention is to construct adevice by which an air-blast may be thrown or projected upon the face, and which device may be easily, readily, and conveniently attached to any chair, and which is cheap and durable in its construction and of great utility.

To that end our invention consists in the several new and novel features of construction and combination of parts hereinafter described, and specifically set forth in the appended claim.

In describing the invention in detail reference will be had to the accompanying drawings,sl lowing an embodiment of our in vcntion, and in which--- Figure 1 is an isometrical view of a barbefls chair, showing our improvement attached thereto and ready for operation. Fig. .2 is a detached perspective view of the pump ,or air- 'lorcing apparatus, showing it mounted upon a bracket and provided with a 'loot-operating piece. Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the pump or air-forcing apparatus, the operating-rod being broken away.

in the drawings, A is a barbers chair, which may be constructed in any manner desired, either elaborate or simple. in view 01 the fact that our invention does not relate to the chair, but only to the attachment thereto, it will be evident that the form and construction of the chair is immaterial. Beneath the chair or at any other point which maybe convenient according to the type of chair we mount a bracket (0 g, which has arms a" a. The arm a may be braced, as at f), if desired, and is secured to the upper and stationary head of the cylinder I) 01 the pump or airforcing apparatus. The cylinder of the pump or air-forcing apparatus is provided with a stationary upper head and a movable lower head. The stationaryupper head may be pro vided with an opening 0, kept normally closed by means of a plug (1, and the lower or movable head has an exit (Z, to which is connected a tube 1*, as shown in Fig. 1. This tube may be held in any convenient manner on the back of the chair when not in use and as fully illustrated in Fig. 1.. The lower or movable head 0 is actuated to compress the air and force the same into tube by means of a rod f, connected at its lower end to a toot-lever The rodf passes through the arms a" g, and these arms serve to guide and support said rod. The rod z" is pinned or otherwisesuitably connected at its upper end to a member orcross-l1eadf", separated from and connected to the bottom or lower head a" by pins (1, so as to leave a free passage for the air through the opening 6' in the lower head a. This opening is closed during the ascent of the lower head 0" by a flap-valve 1/, carried on the upper face of said lower head, and a spring ll, arranged between the upper and lower heads of the pump-evlimler, accelerates the return of the lower head to its normal or lower position. In some instances it is desirable that the blast which is projected against the face he perfumed, and it is for this purpose that we provide the opening 0 in the upper head. Perfume may be introduced into the pumpcylinderthrough this opening (1 and the opening then closed by the plug 0.

In operation it will be observed that when the operator presses down on the outer end of loot-leverf" the rod f is elevated, carrying the lower head c upwardly, compressing the air in the cylinder, and Forcing the same out through exit (1 and tube (4. Thisnpward movement which is imparted to the head (1 compresses spring a, and when the pressure. of the foot-lever f is relieved the spring it forces the rod f and lower head 0 downwardly or to the normal position, and during such downward movement of the lower head 0 the flapvalve Z) rises to allow another supply of air to enter through port 0, the flap-valve closing immediately upon the lower head reaching its normal or rest position.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination with the chair, of a drying attachment carried by the chair and comprising a bracket fixed to the chair and having a pair of outwardly-extendingsupporting-arms, and a downwardly-cxtendi11g guide-arm, an air-forcing apparatus comprising a cylinder mounted between the supporting-arms and having a movable lower head, a rod working through the lowermost supporting-arm and the guide-arm and connected to said movable lower head, an air-inlet and an air-outlet for said cylinder, a flexible tube connected to the air-outlet, a toot-lever connected to the rod for operating the lower head to force air through the outlet and tube, and a spring for returning the lower head to its normal or rest position. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands this 6th dayoi' June, 1900.

LEANDER P. BOlVEN. W ILLIAM J. \VHITE. \Vitnesses:

H. E. GiIAsn, HOWARD P. DENISON. 

